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26
Apr
A Sad News
This is a sad day…
Not only for us the complainants and the minority lawmakers, but more so for the Filipino people. Our right to take President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to task has again been taken away from us.
As our minority lawmakers have said repeatedly, this process is a way to let government show the transparency that the Constitution mandates.
The impeachment process is the proper and legal forum to let the people know what is happening and to allow the government and its officials to explain themselves.
It appears that the government would rather that the people take its grievances to the street than offer them a decent and legal forum.
The House Justice Committee might have stopped the impeachment complaint but I assure everyone that the Committee cannot stop us from airing our grievances and allegations in any and all other forums available to us.
We will bring this case straight to the people. We will go to them and talk to them. We will put out into the open what the government would rather keep under the cloak of darkness.
I give my utmost appreciation to all those who supported us in any way. I thank the Filipino people for their sentiments and their prayers.
We will not keep quiet. The fight in the halls of Congress may be over but the real fight for truth and justice goes on.
Posted in A Sad News, News |
24
Apr
Joey III (ZTE-NBN whistle blower) slams ‘grand palabas’ of administration Press Release 14 April 2009
Joey III (ZTE-NBN whistle blower) slams ‘grand palabas’
of administration, Press Release 14 April 2009
Such showmanship. But as Shakespeare said, it was all sound and fury signifying nothing.
So said businessman Joey de Venecia III (ZTE-NBN whistle blower) yesterday over what he called the sham resignation earlier this week of Prospero Nograles and Luis Villafuerte as president of the two main administration parties – Lakas CMD and Kampi.
The pair made a grand show of quitting their posts in order to give Gloria Macapagal Arroyo a free hand in choosing their bet for next year’s presidential elections.
“If she were totally honest, Mrs. Arroyo would want nothing more than to stay in Malacanang beyond 2010,” said de Venecia.
She may, however, opt for the next best thing, “which is to have her personal choice succeed her,” he added.
Mrs. Arroyo will do so in the belief that her successor “will protect all the personal gains she and her family have amassed during her extended and illegal stint as president.”
Villafuerte and Nograles said the door remains open for an outsider to be named standard bearer.
“This statement carries much weight,” said de Venecia. There are rumors as to who the outsider is, and the son and namesake of the former speaker said this will be the surprise that they plan to spring on the electorate in the coming months in order to score points.
The ZTE-NBN whistleblower added that followers and true believers of the outsider will be sorely disappointed when the time comes the announcement is made that he or she will be the compromise candidate.
Expect another grand show, this time of “unity” so that the chosen one will continue the “successful” economic policies of the Arroyo regime, according to de Venecia.
Despite her popularity sinking to all-time lows for any Philippine president, Mrs. Arroyo has one thing that the other parties do not – a bottomless war chest. This fortune will be spent in order to assure an administration victory next year.
The archaic phrase will come to life next year if the presidential elections push through; guns, goons and gold will be the determining factor of who wins the presidency.
Guns, goons and gold will again undermine our fragile democracy.
“I can only hope that the majority of our people will reject the old school politics that have kept our country from moving forward economically,” de Venecia said.
He said the Lakas-CMD had lost its political direction. His father was co-founder of the party along with former President Fidel Ramos and was a key factor in saving the Arroyo presidency when it teetered on the brink of collapse. The party has since turned against his father, even threatening to expel the former speaker. “It’s not the party it once was,” he said.
Posted in Joey III slams 'grand palabas', News |
22
Apr
Comelec Computerization Weakness
Joey de Venecia III notes Comelec computerization weakness
IT-based businessman Joey de Venecia III says the Commission on Elections’ choice of software for its P11-billion computerization program is far from ideal.
In particular, Joey said the Comelec’s choice of the Open Election System optical scan software does not provide adequate safeguards against hacking, and therefore cheating.
“Massive cheating can still occur in the 2010 elections,” Joey says in his blog, Joey3live.com.
While granting that today’s Comelec commissioners and Congress may have the best of intentions in computerizing its outdated manual count system, superior software should still be considered, he said.
In a statement to media, Joey said awarding the contract to the lowest bidder was “faulty economics.”
“It’s like buying a car when what you really need is a van or a truck,” Joey said.
The Comelec should choose a program which offers total transparency, preferably the same kind used in working democracies such as the US, UK or Japan. Any additional expense would be justified by the greater safety features of more expensive software.
“Computerizing the voting process is long overdue as it is supposed to eradicate cheating,” Joey states in his blog, “Too much is at stake in the 2010 polls.
Joey joined other IT experts in calling for the Comelec to reconsider its choice of software. “Only the best possible hardware and software should be used to guard the sanctity of the ballot,” he said.
Joey is founder and chairman of Castle Rock Holdings Limited, a Hongkong registered company that provides managerial, financial and engineering services for infrastructure projects worldwide.
He is also connected with Business Corporate Services, Inc. a company that provides IT consulting, telecom infrastructure and engineering services. He is the founder and president of Lake West Resources, a company that explores the viability of hydro-electric power in the country with a partnership with Fromm Energies of Barcelona, Spain. He sits on the Board and is an investor in Agri Fisheries World Corp., an aqua culture joint venture among Chinese, Taiwanese and Filipinos that engages in fisheries technology in several parts of the country.
Although known to the public as the whistleblower behind the ZTE-national broadband network scandal, as well as for filing an impeachment case against President Arroyo last year, Joey is also a pioneer in the information technology field.
He is considered the father of the Philippine call center industry after setting up the first real business process outsourcing company in the country. He also owned a paging company in the ‘90s.
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